In 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy established Peace Corps to promote world peace and friendship. Three goals of Peace Corps are:
1. Helping people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women
2. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of people served
3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans
Total # of Volunteers to date are 210,000
Total # of countries Served are 139
Current Volunteers 8073 - 62% Female, 38% Male, 93% Single, 7% Married
Average Age: 28
Volunteers over age 50: 7%
Current Countries: 76
Work Areas: Education 43%, Health 21%, Community and Economic Development 12%,
Environment 12%, Agriculture 4%, Youth 6%
Where Peace Corps Serves: Africa 43%, Latin America 21%, Eastern Europe/Central Asia 15%,
Asia 10%, Caribbean 4%, North Africa/Middle East 4%, Pacific Islands 3%
Joe and I are happy to serve as a married couple, over the age of 50, in Health, in the Pacific Islands!
Peace Corps Books BY LAWRENCE F. LIHOSIT
ReplyDelete(AKA Lorenzo, Honduras, 1975-1977)
Available on Amazon.com
Peace Corps Experience: Write & Publish Your Memoir
The ultimate “How-To” book for former volunteers & staff who have hesitated to tell their story. The author describes what a memoir is and offers tips on how to write, publish & promote.
“Tell your Peace Corps story, but first study this book.”
Robert Klein, PC Oral History Project, Kennedy Library
Years On and Other Travel Essays
The author describes how he hitchhiked along bleak Arizona highways, hacked a path through wooded Honduran mountains, avoided caiman while riding bulls in Bolivia and grizzlies as he hunted caribou in bush Alaska, ran for his life after getting involved in Mexican politics and more.
2011 Peace Corps Writers’ Travel Book Award Recipient
“The best and rarest of ex-pats: the Yankee gone native.”
Tony D’Souza, author of Whiteman.
Peace Corps Chronology; 1961-2010
Includes all notable activities related to the Peace Corps in an easy-to-read style, in chronological order and lists all volunteers who died during and immediately following service.
2010 Peace Corps Writers’ Special Publisher Award Nominee
“This is a very impressive book.”
John Coyne, Editor of Peace Corps Worldwide.
South of the Frontera; A Peace Corps Memoir
Following a job loss, a worn picture postcard ignites adventures leading to the Peace Corps Honduras. This is a vivid and humorous description of Mexico and Central America between 1975 and 1977.
2011 Recipient of Commendation from U.S. Congressman John Garmamendi (CA, Dem)
“A classic.”
Craig Carrozzi, author of The Road to El Dorado.
Whispering Campaign; Stories from Mesoamerica
A collection of short stories with telling details- a taxi driver unscrews his license plate bulb before driving, a young American bewitched by a female shaman waving a necklace of dried herbs, the son of a salesman who dispels the curse of guilt, freeing the ghost of remorse and much more.
2009 Peace Corps Writers’ Maria Thomas Fiction Award Nominee
“As in Chinatown or Ballad of a Thin Man, they go directly to the gut. The mix is a rich one.”
Allen W. Fletcher, author of Heat, Sand & Friends.